India Consumer Prices Rise 3.36%, More Than Forecast

India Consumer Prices Rise
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Gold Silver Reports — India Consumer Prices Rise 3.36%, More Than Forecast — India’s August inflation rate accelerated to the fastest since March, exceeding expectations ahead of the central bank’s policy review in October.  

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Federal Reserve Officials are Widely Expected to Interest-Rate Increase

Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to announce an interest-rate increase this week amid buoyancy in the stock market and indications the U.S. economy continues to grow steadily, without signaling they anticipate accelerating their pace of policy tightening.

Beyond the expected announcement Wednesday of a quarter-point hike in the U.S. central bank’s benchmark rate target, to a range of 0.75 percent to 1 percent, investors will be looking for whether policy makers change their forecasts for the rest of 2017 and beyond.

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